Hunting and Fauna: Piedmont, Hunters oppose the increase in the number of Roe Deer to be killed to the excessive 95% contained in the new Culling Plan proposed by ATC 2 Sud Tanaro for the next 2014/2015 Hunting Season.
The alarm is raised by the local hunters themselves, regarding the resolution approved a few days ago by the management committee of the Atc2? - sud del Tanaro (Hunting territorial area), which met at the Nice office. On Tuesday, the management committee approved the plan for the collection of the roe deer species for the 2014/15 hunting season, which will then be presented to the Region: from the usual 30? 35%, the plan provides for the culling of 95% of the animals surveyed. "It is simply madness - intervenes Carlo Cattaneo, from Castagnolese and historical hunter (he is also councilor of the Municipality) - In other realities the roe deer is considered a resource, while in Italy it is a harmful to be killed: it is not that this whole operation is part of a election campaign in order to seek consensus in the agricultural world, exterminating the roe deer? I hope not, because I still believe in a system where selection hunting does not mean destruction, but containment, where the hunter is an active part of it without disturbing a balance, already precarious, for reasons not certainly related to hunting, but the disproportionate use, for example, of chemical products and herbicides, in an environment strongly destined to vine and hazel monoculture ".
And Cattaneo also launches an appeal: “The plan passed with 9 votes in favor and 8 against: and the votes against came from the hunting and environmental associations. This is emblematic of the position of the hunters. I would advise the ATC management committee to sit around a table and reconsider this proposal, seriously considering the selection hunt and evaluating it for what a region like Piedmont, strongly pro-European, deserves like other nations. where the hunting culture is in harmony with nature, the agricultural world in symbiosis, as far as possible, with the external environment ".
(April 22, 2014)
Source: LaNuovaProvincia